AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 15: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1st

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     “Remember, a half a million to    
anyone who helps me get them out. Ok,  
ok, Criminal. Jeez, anyway, my friends 
have learned the art of hacking from a 
cat's point of view, and they're good, 
even better than the Hacker here,” she 
said pointing with a paw towards       
Rhonda.                                
     “That, I'd like to see,” Rhonda   
said defensively.                      
     “Don't get me wrong. You're good, 
but they're better. Don't forget that  
video with the cat playing the drums.” 
     “Oh yeah,” she said quietly,      
remembering what the Cat had told her  
earlier.                               
     “Anyway, they've been able to hack
into hundreds of different banks all   
around the world. They stay away from  
the really small ones, because there's 
not as much money to steal, but they   
hit one once just to see if they could 
do it, but generally they stay away    
from them.”                            
     “And,” both Rhonda and Darryl     
asked at the same time as the Cat      
stopped, and they bumped knuckles,     
while Darryl pointing at her with his  
other hand, “Jinx. You owe me a soda.” 
     “Damn,” Rhonda said put on a pouty
face, but that was soon replaced by a  
look of intense interest.              
     “And?” she asked again.           
     The Cat first explained the       
intricacies of banking, what she could 
understand of it anyway, and ended with
the four-digit decimal trick that banks
used, and that I explained earlier.    
     She ended with, “Does that make   
sense?”                                
     “I think so,” Mouse said, and then
added, “you can write a dollar with    
either two or four zeroes, but those   
last two are only a fraction of a      
penny...”                              
     “Exactly. Thank you, Mouse,” the  
Cat said, “and that fraction of a      
penny, when you're talking about just  
one customer, is practically           
meaningless, but...”                   
     “When you’re talking about        
thousands of customers,” Rhonda said,  
sitting on the edge of the couch in    
rapt attention.                        
     “How about hundreds of            
thousands, or even millions of         
customers? That's thousands of dollars,
tens of thousands of dollars per bank,”
Beth said shaking her head, “and if you
hit an average of ten a month,         
randomly, from all over the world, you 
can steal millions. Even after only a  
decade, we're talking billions.”       
     “So basically,” Darryl said, “your
friends are bank robbers?”             



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